MOST URGENT

[tim]

Daughter has to re-set the dpi on some photos to near 300 at least for incorporation in a book.

How/where do you/can you change the dpi - PLEASE??

Surely, once a photo has been reduced in size for a purpose, it cant be resurrected?

[tim]

[glow777]

Thats pretty true tim

Once a picture has been reduced it cant be increased with the same quality.
You can create a blank 300dpi print of the required size and paste the pic over the original and stretch to fit but the quality will be bad.

Some publishers dont mind taking 72dpi pics nowadays as that is all digi cameras take at but the initial (physical) picture size is much bigger than the required finishing size.

eg a 3000 X 2000 72dpi jpg will publish ok where a 300dpi 3"x2" image is required.

Depending on the photo you may be able to resize the pics in a pro image package such as adobe photoshop that supports interpolation

heres the lowdown on interpolation
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Digital_Imaging/Interpolation_01.htm

how many pics do you want resizing Tim?

[KevB]

Hi Tim

Not certain BUT have you tried to restore your PC to an ealier time?

Or even sometimes a copy may have been made ?

Kev

[tim]

First Glowy - this is the message we got.

To do? About 8...........??  = Tim

Be back 'shortly', Kev!

[glow777]

First Glowy - this is the message we got.

To do? About 8...........??  = Tim

Be back 'shortly', Kev!

Kev system restore wont change data files just registry entries nice thought tho.

Tim if you want to send me one as an example (or all 8 if you want) I'll have a look at what I can do. I'll PM you my address. When's the deadline?

[tim]

Somewhere I said 'in the post' - together with 'the message' which seems to have disappeared - but it's gone!!

So pl see my email.

[glow777]

Just to let you know I have not received them yet tim

RU sure you got the email address right

[glow777]

scrub that got them now - ill get back 2 you

[kenkew]

Tim,
Dunno if this will help, but I use Pix resizer which apart from reducing the pic also keeps a copy of the original. I don't suppose there's a chance it's still in there somewhere?
Hope Glow can sort you.
I have adobe photoshop CS2.

[tim]

Thanks, Ken - quite a bit's going on 'behind the scenes'!!

[kenkew]

I don't know my prog too well (reading the manual here...!)  but I'm trying a test to see if I can do/undo as per your problem.

[norfolklass]

Tim, I know you've had a few offers of help already and I hope it all gets resolved. in case it doesn't, I'm a book designer by day, and may be able to help... please shout if I can ;D

[tim]

And a book reader by night?

What a GREAT site this is!! Have I said this before??

Trouble is to find the tech questions to ask to get the help that is there. On so many subjects.

Unfortunately, the book people are 5 hours behind, which does make life more difficult.

But THANKS!!

[ipt8]

Hi just seen this post. If the photo was altered to one with less dpi then the new reduced dpi is a copy and should have a different file name and the old photo should be as it was.

[glow777]

Hi just seen this post. If the photo was altered to one with less dpi then the new reduced dpi is a copy and should have a different file name and the old photo should be as it was.

Don't know where you get that from ipt8 but an edited file of any type is stored into volatile memory (eg RAM, swap files) until committed to persistence storage. Then it is saved either as a different file using a different name and/or location or overwriting the original. Some programs such as Adobe photoshop append "copy" to the file name to prevent accidental overwriting but these are exceptions to the norm.

I imagine your quote just comes from the way your particular piece of software works

[Yellow Petals]

Weeellll??  What happened?  I kept checking back on this thread yesterday to see if the problem got solved! 

[glow777]

Weeellll??  What happened?  I kept checking back on this thread yesterday to see if the problem got solved! 

Ive done a sample for Tim on one of the pics which looked OK he's getting the official nod and if OK'd I'll do the rest for him.

[tim]

Sam - as I said, dealing with the US is a nightmare. The big thing is that I got instant response here & things are moving. The sort of stuff that we're looking for is this - www.carolineelkington.net . And good news, the Cardoons sold today!!

ipt8 - Daughter's a painter - not too good at ensuring copies & things! Any copies that there might have been were lost in the crash. We lost internal AND back-up on the same day.

Ian - that says it all??

[Larkshall]

Hi Tim,
I always save my pictures to a second HDD in the computer in a folder called "Original Pics", then I copy them to a USB connected 20GB HDD which I store as a backup (it's only used to back up photo files.
My folder system is:-

Original Pics/Original Pics 2006/2006-12-30
Original Pics/Original Pics 2007/2007-01-10
Original Pics/Original Pics 2007/2007-01-12    etc.

The pics from each date are stored in that folder.

[tim]

So right - hence our portable HDD which collapsed at the same time. Sod's law!

Ian - even the Dolphins could not have been more help??